Shovel and scoop



. L. H. SHOLDER.

SHOVEL AND scour.

(No Model.)

No.1291,234. Patented Jan. 1, 1884.

SSES INVENTOR f ATTORNEYS PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS H; sHoLnnR, or GLEVELAND, OHIO.

SHOVELAND SCOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,234, dated January 1, 1854.

Application filed June 16, 1883. (No model.)

lb all 10720112) it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs H. SHOLDER, of

, -Olevela11d,in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shovels and Scoops; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains .to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in shovels, and more especially to that class of scoops made largely of wire and used much for screening; and it consists in certain features of construction and in combination of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a scoop made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a detailed view of the piece forming the front edge of the scoop or shovel, with a portion of the upper lip broken away to show the dovetail seats for the wires. Fig. 3 is adetail view of a piece of wire with one end spread out to fit the seats shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view of the side of the socket that embraces the shovel-handle.

A represents a shovel-handle of the ordinary kind, inserted in the socket of the part B. The socket is curved and open on the sides, as shown in Fig. 4. The parts I) and b are joined at each end with integral parts, as shown, making a socket both light and strong. The handles without previous bending are forcedinto their resp ectivesock ets, and are thus bent and held in a proper manner. After the handle is forced home in the socket, there is no fitting of the different parts of metal to each other, or of the metal to the wood, except the points hereinafter mentioned. The upper part of the socket N, that surrounds the handle like a hand, terminates at the upper end in triangular points, as shown, and each point on its inrier side is provided with a teat, also shown. These points are turned back or opened slightly, so that these teats will not engage the handle while it is being forced into the socket. Afterward the points are forced down to a close contact with the wood, the teats and the extreme end of the points entering the wood, so that the outside surface of these extreme ends are flush with the surface of the wood. This makes the surface smooth I enough for practical purposes, and the teats hold the points firmly to their engagement with the wood, and would also hold the handle in the socket, if required; but the handle be withdrawn from the socket without a breakage of the parts. The socket just described terminates in a ribbed or skeleton plate, b consisting, preferably, of three bars with open.-

bars is not essential; but it is important to have all of the openings or screening-surface possible at this part of the scoop or shovel. vOn these bars, and preferably on the upper surface thereof, are teats placed in pairs suitable for embracing, respectively, the Wires of teats are thin at the point, and may be bent down over the wires to hold them firmly in place. The position of these teats on the bars may be arranged as is most convenient and practicable. Suitable rivet-holes are made for attaching the sides 0. Thesesi des give strength and stiffness to the sh ovel, but are perforated, as shown, to add to the screening-surface, and also to lighten the structure.

To the front ends of the sides 0 is attached the part D. The parts B, O, and D are preferably made of malleable cast-iron, and in that case the rivets by which the structure is fastened together should be made a part of their respective castings. The part, D, as is shown, forming the front edge of the shovel or scoop, is attached to side pieces, 0, and holds the front end of the wires firm and in the proper place. The front edge of this piece may be made in a straight line or with an undulating front, as shown; but the edge should be rounded, so as not to have a cutting-edge, and should also be case-hardened, so as to retain this blunt edge and not to acquire a sharp cutting-edge by the wear incident to long use. The construction of the plate is illustrated in Fig. 2, in which the left-hand end is entire. The parts parts of what remains on the left hand. The ends have each a part or wing, 01, with a hole in the central part to receive the rivet of the part 0, and is provided with the rib d, suffi ciently long and thin, and adapted to be turned down over the end of the part 0, adding strength and finish to this part of the device.-

soon sets in its new shape, and could not ings between, as shown. The number of these which the body of the shovelis made. These broken away on the right should be counter- IOO The bottom part has seats for the end of the wires cast thereon and dovetailed, as shown. The lip (I? is integral with the said part D, and may have rivet-holes cast therein, as shown at (1 made to engage the rivets cl, cast on the bottom part. First, the parts 13 and C are riveted together, and the parts 0 and D are fast,- ened in the manner described. The wires, cut and bent in a proper manner, and with their ends spread, as shown in Fig. 3, by being flattened, so as to fit the dovetail seats aforesaid, are laid in their respective places in the shovel, and secured to the part B by turning down the teats over the wire in a manner already described. Next, with the flattened ends of the wires engaging their respective seats, the lip d is forced down snugly upon the wires, and is secured by the said rivets d.

It is important that the case-hardening of the plate D should not extend back to the lip (P, as it is necessary for strength that not only the lip d", but also all of the part D except the front edge, should be malleable.

\Vhat I claim isl. The part B, consisting of a curved tubular socket terminating at its lower end in a l skeleton plate, substantially as described, and for the purpose shown.

2. A shovel having a wire bottom and perforated metal sides 0, substantially as set forth.

3. A shovel having a wire bottom, perforated inetallic sides 0, and metal piece D, secured at its opposite ends to the side piece, C.

4. The combination of the parts 13, C, and D, constructed substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

5. The combination, with a handle, of the pawl 13, constructed substantially as described, and provided with the elongated socket, the upper end of which is formed with triangular or other suitable projections, each of which is provided with an inwardly-prqjecting teat to take into the wooden handle, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification, in the presence of two witnesses, this 14th day of June, 1883.

LOUIS H. SHOLDER.

\Vitnesses:

Elias. H. Donna, ALBERT E. LYNCH. 

